Current PhD Students

Abstract: My research focuses on exploration, by investigating the nature of the exploration process itself – seeking to examine the interplay between the search for information in the exterior environment and one’s own mind. Specifically, examining the external exploration of the surrounding by tracking eye gaze behavior, and the internal exploration of different types of stored information, concerning past events and semantic knowledge. the research methologies are based on an interdisciplinary approach, combining diverse research tools – from behavioral and physiological measurements to advanced neuroimaging techniques. My research aims to shed light on the fluid and constant trade-off between these two prominent modes of exploration, and their implications on decision making, learning and mood fluctuations.

Publications: https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Tal_Nahari2/research

Azrieli Scholarship 2019/2020

Subject: Hebrew Spoken by Haredi Litaim (Litvish-Yeshivish) in Israel: A Linguistic Description

Supervisors: Prof. Yochanan Breuer (Hebrew University) and Dr. Dalit Asulin (University of Haifa)

Bio: Dina Sender completed her B.A. and M.A. studies (summa cum laude) in the Hebrew Linguistics department at the Hebrew University. Her M.A. thesis focuses on a linguistic phenomenon, Ashkenazi pronunciation, that characterizes Haredi Hebrew, aiming to examine it from multiple angles: to map the lexical sources of the linguistic forms with Ashkenazi pronunciation, to analyze its phonological characteristics, to trace grammatical changes that occur in forms with Ashkenazi pronunciation, and to discuss the pragmatic functions that this pronunciation serves. This work was written under the supervision of Prof. Yochanan Breuer (the Hebrew University) and Dr. Dalit Asulin (University of Haifa).

Dina is currently a PhD student in the Hebrew Linguistics department at the Hebrew University. Her research aims to describe comprehensively the Haredi Litai community’s unique linguistic repertoire, and to enrich this examination with a sociolinguistic analysis of the links between the speakers' linguistic choices and their ideology, values, and group affiliation.

Publications:

"Hebrew as a Language of Speech and Yiddish as a Language of Emotion among the Ultra-Orthodox in Israel," Language Studies (in Hebrew, forthcoming)

"Ashkenazi Pronunciation in Spoken Haredi Hebrew in Israel: Grammar and Pragmatics," Leshonenu (in Hebrew, forthcoming)

President Scholarship 2020/2021

MA Honors Program 2016/2017